We are the first generation that recorded music off the radio!That watched films on video!And spent endless hours, happily glued to the Atari joystick, playing games that were anything but complicated. We are the last generation of storytelling nights around the Korsi!* The last to gather in cheerful evening get-togethers—without Instagram, Telegram, or the Internet. The last generation to sit late into the night listening to tales of jinn and the supernatural, waiting each week for “Mr. Filmi”* to arrive with his Samsonite case full of low-quality movies—scratched, jumpy, and so often replayed they either ruined the VCR head or…
Author: Behnaz Eghbal
Behnaz Eghbal
Behnaz Eghbal, born in 1985 in Tehran, is a graduate with a bachelor’s degree in the restoration of historical monuments and buildings. She is a cinema writer and the artistic director of the podcast Sedaye Khial (The Voice of Imagination), as well as the writer and narrator of stories about the cities and alleyways of Iran